Pith Number

pith:RCIT6CGC

pith:2017:RCIT6CGCR44ZWEHYGVBGODVEFF

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Convex function approximations for Markov decision processes

Jeremy Yee

arxiv:1712.00970 v6 · 2017-12-04 · math.OC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RCIT6CGCR44ZWEHYGVBGODVEFF}

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:22:57.448856Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

88913f08c28f399b10f83542670ea4297ce89f12ec3f5718051ba4b2a3e111dc

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.00970 · arxiv_version: 1712.00970v6 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.00970 · pith_short_12: RCIT6CGCR44Z · pith_short_16: RCIT6CGCR44ZWEHY · pith_short_8: RCIT6CGC

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/RCIT6CGCR44ZWEHYGVBGODVEFF \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 88913f08c28f399b10f83542670ea4297ce89f12ec3f5718051ba4b2a3e111dc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ca69af245b0358fd64b976ce80d3f17f2b4207f16e17c7875a3c98f94b035f85",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.OC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-04T09:26:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1cfc0ea4798192017ab9cbfb1b6e85a037d5d3df5feb3487a2e3f169219c2501"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.00970",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 6
  }
}